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... novel play at . Vladimir , Verloc , Heat , even Ossipon are all investigating - but lazily , fitfully . The novel concerns Greenwich Observatory , a place dedicated to bringing facts to light , but the novel uses the observa- tory only ...
... novel play at . Vladimir , Verloc , Heat , even Ossipon are all investigating - but lazily , fitfully . The novel concerns Greenwich Observatory , a place dedicated to bringing facts to light , but the novel uses the observa- tory only ...
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... novel , though they differ as to its merits , find the murder its high point . The critics , I think , are saying Conrad's special style ( or charac- ter ) succeeds in that chapter , much less so in the rest of the novel . But the novel ...
... novel , though they differ as to its merits , find the murder its high point . The critics , I think , are saying Conrad's special style ( or charac- ter ) succeeds in that chapter , much less so in the rest of the novel . But the novel ...
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... novel continues to a third version of primal scene material , the implicit collision of the dog and the car . If we look at this section of the novel as a transformation , it is reworking the primal scene fantasy at its core into a ...
... novel continues to a third version of primal scene material , the implicit collision of the dog and the car . If we look at this section of the novel as a transformation , it is reworking the primal scene fantasy at its core into a ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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